Recently,
there has been revealing news about the U.S. Army's Project "Able
Danger," which was established in September 1999 by Gen. Peter J.
Schoomaker, then head of the Special Operations Command. Schoomaker
had previously advised Texas Governor Ann Richards and the FBI regarding
what military equipment could be used in the attack upon the Branch
Davidians at Waco (a mock-up of the Davidians' compound was at Fort
Hood, Texas, where Schoomaker was an assistant to Gen. Wesley Clark,
a Rhodes Scholar named by fellow Rhodes Scholar President Bill Clinton
to be military head of NATO). Schoomaker has also advocated joint
military training exercises with the Communist Chinese, and on August
1, 2003 President George W. Bush named him Army Chief of Staff.

Able
Danger used advanced technology and data analysis to identify and
target Al-Qaeda members around the world. Long before the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001, Able Danger identified 9-11 ringleader
Mohammed Atta in September 2000 as part of an Al-Qaeda cell in Brooklyn,
and eventually 60 members of Al-Qaeda were identified.

Concerning
Atta's background, in November 1998 he and several other terrorists
moved into a 4-bedroom apartment in Hamburg, Germany. On February
17 of the next year, German intelligence began tapping suspected Al-Qaeda
terrorist Mohammed Haydar Zammar's phone, and they heard Zammar was
at a meeting with Atta. By December 1999, the CIA began to recruit
German businessman Mamoun Darkazanli for information because he knew
Atta and others of the Hamburg Al-Qaeda terrorist cell.

The
next month (January 2000), according to the German intelligence magazine
FOCUS (September 24, 2001), the CIA began surveillance of Atta which
lasted to May 2000. Christian Elflein and others wrote in the FOCUS
article that "U.S. agents followed him (Atta) mainly in the area around
Frankfurt am Main and noted that Atta bought large quantities of chemicals
for the possible production of explosives....On May 18, 2000 the U.S.
Embassy in Berlin gave (Atta) a visa....Strange that the visa application
and granting it happened in the period when the (CIA) was still observing
the suspicious buying of chemicals by the person (Atta) concerned....Someone
from the (German) intelligence service (told) FOCUS: 'We can no longer
exclude the possibility that the Americans wanted to keep an eye on
Atta after his entry in the USA.'...German security experts are still
stunned about the speed with which the FBI could present the conspirative
ties of Atta and his presumed Hamburg accomplices. 'As (if all it
needed was) a push on a button,' an insider says, 'As if the Americans
for a long time already had loads of info on their computers about
the culprits.'"

At
this point, it is worth mentioning that Yossef Bodansky (director
of the U.S. House of Representatives Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional
Warfare) in TARGET AMERICA: TERRORISM IN THE U.S. TODAY (1993) referred
to a large Islamist network spanning the U.S. including "all the components
of a mature terrorist support system (with) safe houses in major cities,
weapons, ammunition, money, systems to provide medical and legal aid,
false identity papers, and intelligence for the operative." The point
in including this here is to ask how Bodansky would know about all
this unless the terrorist network were already being monitored by
the federal government?

Returning
to Mohammed Atta, he used his aforementioned visa to come to the U.S.
on June 3, 2000. He stayed at the Wayne Inn on Route 23 in New Jersey,
and in July went to Venice, Florida to take flying lessons at Huffman
Aviation flight school. Then in May 2001, he rented an apartment in
Hollywood, Florida.

Several
months later, Atta received $100,000 wired to him at the request of
Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad, head of the ISI, Pakistani intelligence (also
see my NewsWithViews.com article "Richard Armitage
and the ISI"). Shortly thereafter, September 3-5, 2001, members
of Atta's Hamburg terrorist cell left Germany for Pakistan. At about
this same time (the week before the 9-11 attacks), Gen. Ahmad came
to the U.S. to talk to top Pentagon, CIA and NSC (National Security
Council) officials (in May 2001 Gen. Ahmad already had an unusually
long meeting in Pakistan with CIA Director George Tenet and Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage).

Then,
on September 10, 2001 some top Pentagon officials suddenly cancelled
their travel plans for the morning of 9-11 apparently because of security
concerns. Late that same night (September 10), San Francisco Mayor
Willie Brown also received a phone call warning him and all Americans
to watch out for air travel (Mayor Brown was supposed to fly to New
York City the morning of 9-11). In case you think these top Pentagon
officials and Mayor Brown simply received a general warning, alert
or emergency ruling from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration),
I filed 2 Freedom of Information requests and received replies from
the Department of Homeland Security stating that while there were
12 warnings, alerts or emergency rulings between May and September
15, 2001, none occurred from September 2 through September 11.

At
the end of the Preface of long-time Middle East CIA agent Robert Baer's
2002 book, SEE NO EVIL, one finds the following: "The other day a
reporter friend told me that one of the highest-ranking CIA officials
had said to him, off the record, that when the dust finally clears,
Americans will see that September 11 was a triumph for the intelligence
community, not a failure."

In
October 2003, Able Danger officer Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer testified
to the 9-11 Commission about their monitoring Mohammed Atta and other
9-11 terrorists long before the attacks of 9-11, but the Commission
did not include this information in its report. Regarding this, NATIONAL
REVIEW's Jim Geraghty exclaimed: "As for the 9-11 commission, after
all that patting themselves on the back, all that gushing praise from
left, right and center, after their work was called 'miraculous' by
NEWSDAY, and the nomination for a National Book Award, and calling
their own work 'extraordinary'...man, these guys stink. Really, if
this checks out, and the staffers had information like this and they
disregarded it, never believing that we in the public deserved to
know that the plot's ringleader was identified, located and recommended
to be arrested a year before the attacks...boy, these guys ought to
be in stocks in the public square and have rotten fruit thrown at
them. What a sham." In addition, members of the organization SEPTEMBER
11 ADVOCATES released a statement saying in part: "As 9-11 widows
who fought tirelessly for the creation of the 9-11 commission, we
are wholly disappointed to learn that the commission's Final Report
is a hollow failure."

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Concerning
the July 7, 2005 London terrorist bombings, the terrorist ringleader
also trained with Al-Qaeda in Pakistan. The photo of the 4 bombers
widely shown in the press and media appears to be doctored, as the
man in the white cap supposedly in front of the railed fence actually
has one of the rails in front of his left arm. In a July 29, 2005
interview on Fox News Channel's "Day Side" program, former U.S. Justice
Department prosecutor and terror expert John Loftus said that 7-7
mastermind, Haroon Rashid Aswat, came to America in 1999. Loftus then
revealed: "The Justice Department wanted to indict him in Seattle
because him and his buddy were trying to set up a terrorist training
school in Oregon....We've just learned that the headquarters of the
U.S. Justice Department ordered the Seattle prosecutors not to touch
Aswat..., apparently Aswat was working for British intelligence....The
Brits know that the CIA wants to get a hold of Haroon. So what happens?
He takes off again, goes right to London. He isn't arrested when he
lands, he isn't arrested when he leaves....He's on the watch list.
The only reason he could get away with that was if he was working
for British intelligence. He was a wanted man." Aswat allegedly left
London on July 6, 2005, the day before the bombings, to go to Pakistan
where he was arrested but released within 24 hours.

Dennis Laurence Cuddy, historian and political
analyst, received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill (major in American History, minor in political science). Dr. Cuddy
has taught at the university level, has been a political and economic
risk analyst for an international consulting firm, and has been a Senior
Associate with the U.S. Department of Education.

Cuddy has also testified before members of Congress
on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Cuddy has authored or
edited twenty books and booklets, and has written hundreds of articles
appearing in newspapers around the nation, including The Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He has been a guest on numerous radio
talk shows in various parts of the country, such as ABC Radio in New York
City, and he has also been a guest on the national television programs
USA Today and CBS's Nightwatch.